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a large clasp of silver or gold, some inches in breadth. It is 
sometimes, when of metal, made in links, and sometimes in 
one piece very fine and flexile. 
The krabu are small earrings of gold sometimes with a dia¬ 
mond set in them. A larger kind are called subang ; when 
the krabu has several diamonds or other stones of one, kunang 
kunang sakabun* Before marriage and the birth of the first 
child, anting anting or pendants of gold, called tauge when 
loop shaped and chinchin when ring shaped, are suspended 
from the krabu* Solid pendants, orlet , sometimes of diamonds, 
are worn by those who can afford them on great occasions, 
such as marriages. 
Four rings of gold are generally worn on the left hand, 
two on the little finger and two on the next These rings 
have sometimes diamonds. Bracelets, gllang tangan or pi- 
tam y of gold are frequently but not generally worn ,and arm- 
lets, ponto, are seldom seen save on the persons of brides. 
A handkerchief held in the hand completes the costume of 
the fair sex. 
At the toilet, combs, generally of Chinese manufacture 
and cocoanut oil, are the only articles used. Cosmetics are 
very rarely resorted to, save in the families of royal and no¬ 
ble persons, and although the men occasionally use rose wat¬ 
er, rose oil, chindana oil, majmo oil, §Tc. the women never do 
so. Flowers, such as the rose, milor, champaka, and ka- 
nangga, are occasionally but very rarely worn in the hair. 
Their use is generally considered to denote an unbecoming 
manifestation of vanity or desire to attract attention. 
DRESS OF children; 
The dress of children is similar to that of their 
elders. Until the age of about five years they wear ths 
barut.* Until this age the children of the poor in country 
parts often run about naked, the females having a small 
heart shaped plate of silver or gold, called chaping, fastened 
by a strin g where the sculptor, from a similar motive, some¬ 
times places a leaf. Little silver globules with grains inside, 
Jcaronchong , are sometimes fastened by a string round the an¬ 
kles,] and make a tinkling sound when the children are in mo¬ 
tion. They are disused at the age of two or three years. 
On holidays and days of ceremony the children are gaily 
dressed. The boys wear little scull caps ornamented with 
golden flowers, and the girls the kopia blrbkor which 
hangs down behind the kolur which is similar to the kopia. 
* A large bandage, 
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